Top Orange County Sheriff's Office Articles

A man was found dead Thursday morning after a shooting in the Walgreens parking lot in the Pine Hills area, officials said.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office and Orlando Police responded to calls about shots fired in the area of North Pine Hills Road...

A 34-year-old man charged with two counts of first-degree murder in a shooting this weekend that killed two people faced a judge Thursday morning in Orange County.
Luis E. Pacheco was denied bond and ordered to have no contact with the victims of the...

A scooter driver's mysterious death has a neighborhood — and authorities — wondering what's behind the shooting of Keven Padilla.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office at first thought he was the victim of a hit-and-run. But on Saturday it...

Casey Anthony attorney Jose Baez, along with the Orange County Sheriff's Office and the Internal Revenue Service, should not receive anything from a settlement in her bankruptcy case, according to a trustee's report filed recently in federal court....

When a car pulls to a stop at a DUI checkpoint, police say they're looking for obvious signals that the driver may be impaired: glassy eyes, slurred speech, the smell of alcohol.
But a video that went viral recently, with more than 2.2 million YouTube...

A man was shot and killed Saturday night near the Pine Hills neighborhood outside Orlando.
The shooting took place at 11:52 p.m. on the 1700 block of Daly Street, Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesperson Lourdes Clayton said in a statement....

Barbara Miles said she didn't know what led to the gunfire near her Apopka neighborhood early Thursday, but she had an idea: "A bunch of foolishness, probably drug-related."
As Miles spoke to reporters, police were searching a nearby home on Apopka...

When Chief John Mina took over the Orlando Police Department in April, his main focus was clear: He wanted to make sure there was less crime in 2014 than the previous year.
And that's exactly what happened, Mina and Mayor Buddy Dyer announced Friday as...

Deputies are searching for a suspect who stole a University of Central Florida student's car and credit card from a student-housing apartment complex, Orange County Sheriff's Office said.
The student called deputies on Friday at 8 a.m. and told them his...

A 61-year-old man accused of inappropriately touching two girls while working as a security guard at the Oviedo Mall had a long career in law-enforcement, records show.
Ronald Queen, arrested on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior and battery,...

It's like Deborah D. Poe disappeared into thin air.
On Feb. 4, 1990, the 26-year-old left her purse and paycheck locked inside her new red Toyota Celica parked outside her night job at a Circle K convenience store in east Orange County.
Then she...